Use ? to truncate a word or search for part of a word. For example:
- child? searches for “child” “children” “childhood”
- wom?n searches for “woman” and “women”
Use ? to truncate a word or search for part of a word. For example:
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Use an Author Search to search for personal authors, companies, associations and government organisations.
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The dropdown menu that allows you to re-order results is located on the left-hand side of the screen above the list of search results.
The default setting for this dropdown menu is Keyword Relevance.
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Just re-sort the result set by ‘Earliest year first’.
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Limit your result set to online articles only when you use the Quick limits button, or add http to your search terms.
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To limit your INNZ searches to only articles that are available online, select the “Online Articles” option in the Quick Limits drop-down menu (see the red arrow in the image below) before putting in your search terms.

Red arrow showing the location of the Quick Limits menu
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Use the Author Search function to search for publications by government organisations (as well as to search for personal authors, companies, associations).
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Select “Maori” on the Quick Limits dropdown menu to limit your INNZ search to articles in te reo Māori.
The Quick Limits dropdown menu appears on right-hand side of the search page and on the right-hand side above your search results.
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